Conduct vs Conclude - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between conduct and conclude

is that conduct is convoy; escort; guard; guide while conclude is to include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

In transitive terms the difference between conduct and conclude

is that conduct is to carry out (something organized while conclude is to come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

In intransitive terms the difference between conduct and conclude

is that conduct is to act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

As verbs the difference between conduct and conclude

is that conduct is to lead, or guide; to escort while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

As a noun conduct

is the act or method of controlling or directing.

conduct

English

Noun

(-)

The act or method of controlling or directing

* 1785 , (William Paley), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.

* Ld. Brougham

the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs

Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

Conduct of armies is a prince's art. - .

* Robertson

with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.

The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

Good conduct''' will be rewarded and likewise poor '''conduct will be punished.

* Macaulay

All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.

* Dryden

What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?

(of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

* Macaulay

the book of Job, in conduct and diction

(obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

* Ben Jonson

I will be your conduct .

* Shakespeare

In my conduct shall your ladies come.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

* Shakespeare

although thou hast been conduct of my chame

Synonyms

* (act or method of controlling or directing ) control, guidance, management * (manner of guiding or carrying one's self ): bearing, behavior/behaviour, deportment, demeanor/demeanour, * (plot of a literary work) action, plot, storyline

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To lead, or guide; to escort.

* 1634 , (John Milton),

I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.

To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.

to conduct the affairs of a kingdom

Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.

(reflexively to conduct oneself ) To behave.

He conducted himself well.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

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(music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

* 2006 , Michael R. Waters with Mark Long and William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne

For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted' the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had '''conducted''' the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, ' conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.

To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

To carry out (something organized)

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Synonyms

* (lead or guide) accompany, escort, guide, lead, steer, belead * (direct) direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, belead * act, behave, carry on * (to serve as a medium for conveying) carry, convey, transmit

Statistics

* English heteronyms

conclude

English

Verb

(conclud)

To end; to come to an end.

The story concluded with a moral.

To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

* Francis Bacon

I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

to conclude a bargain

* Shakespeare

if we conclude a peace

To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

* Tillotson

No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

* Addison

But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.

The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

* Sir M. Hale

If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.

* Hooker

The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

* Bible, Romans xi. 32

For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

* Bible, Gal. iii. 22

The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Derived terms

* concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

Antonyms

* (to end) begin, initiate, start